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Resuttano fire, August 2021 Resuttano

Out · last measured on 2 Aug 2021

The fire started on 2 August 2021 in Resuttano, Italy, and satellites saw it burning for 1 day. Copernicus mapped a burnt perimeter of 108 hectares from satellite imagery, spread across a single municipality.

It is the 139th largest in Caltanissetta since 2016 (of 149 with a page). Number 272 in Italy in 2021, of 291.

We have the Copernicus perimeter for this fire, but the VIIRS sensors did not capture it in enough detail: no day-by-day evolution, but the split by municipality is there.

Burnt area
108ha
Copernicus perimeter
Duration
1day
2 Aug 2021 – 2 Aug 2021
Municipalities hit
1
municipalities
Started on
2 Aug
2021
Danger at start
21
High · FWI index

Where it burned

The weather it burned in

30°high
35km/h · peak gust
54%lowest humidity

It had gone 0 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started.

This area had burned before

88% of the perimeter overlaps earlier fires recorded since 2016: 88 ha in 2019, 12 ha in 2020. Part of it burned more than once, so the yearly figures add up to more than the 95 ha that had burned before.

What happened to each town

  1. Resuttano 1,752 inhabitants · 0.9 km from the town where it started
    108 ha
    2.8 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the official perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

What burned

  • Other natural land78 %
  • Agricultural areas21 %
  • Artificial surfaces0.9 %

Land cover inside the perimeter according to Corine Land Cover, as reported by Copernicus.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
2 Aug 29.5 °C 54 % 35 km/h 0.0 mm High 21
3 Aug after 30.2 °C 45 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 23
4 Aug after 35.0 °C 26 % 53 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
5 Aug after 28.9 °C 20 % 42 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
6 Aug after 28.3 °C 35 % 40 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
7 Aug after 30.7 °C 32 % 28 km/h 0.0 mm High 31
8 Aug after 31.7 °C 32 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
9 Aug after 33.8 °C 35 % 29 km/h 0.0 mm High 29
10 Aug after 36.8 °C 19 % 33 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 39
11 Aug after 36.4 °C 20 % 43 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
12 Aug after 32.5 °C 35 % 38 km/h 0.0 mm High 34

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 26 Jul 2021
After · 9 Aug 2021

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

The smoke

CAMS · Copernicus

On 1 August 2021 the air beside the fire reached 30 µg/m³ of PM2.5. That day averaged 26: 1.7 times the WHO daily guideline (15).

PM2.5 peak30 µg/m³
Days over the guideline6 days
PM1063 µg/m³
3112345
Good Fair Moderate Poor Very poor Extremely poor

Particles from the Copernicus CAMS model at the centre of the perimeter; these are not measurements in each town. The pale bar is the worst hour, the solid one the daily average.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS)

Other fires nearby

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Resuttano fire last?
Copernicus dates it between 2 August 2021 and 2 August 2021: 1 day between the first and last image with fire.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter Copernicus measured from satellite imagery is 108 hectares (1.1 km²). Official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire only entered Resuttano (108 ha, 2.8 %).
Did the fire reach a town?
The closest fire to a town centre came within 0.9 km of Resuttano. That is the distance to the perimeter or nearest hotspot; it does not mean it entered the houses.
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 29.5 °C, humidity dropped to 54 % and gusts hit 35 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 21, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the EFFIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Italy (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 112 · 1515

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter and land cover come from the Copernicus European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS), measured on MODIS and Sentinel-2 imagery and published under CC BY 4.0. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM4 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ slightly from each country’s official figure.